Recent content by jago25_98

I'm looking for an alternative interface for Interactive Brokers. I have a very small portfolio and I rarely trade so I don't have much of a budget. Is there any free or low cost software or apps out there to help me? The main thing I really need is a way to easily visualise my portfolio. I...

InteractiveBrokers seem to be the only option... I was hoping there might be options outside the USA

I want to be able to react to opportunities I may see as an when they arise for any of the commodities on the CoT report - Coffee, Treasuries, S&P. I also would like to have a chance to trade lesser known commodities should that opportunity arise. I'm not interested in Equities or Forex. The...

This happened to me today: Today I just caught the price of NGAS changing by one or 2 pips after I made an order so I got in contact with FXCM support. Support told me the market is on a break. I asked how I could have made an order while on break. They told me that the order is created but...

As a newbie to trading I'm shocked by the 1990's feel of charting software. Metatrader4 appears to be the standard with the widest range of free and paid indicator scripts. My favourite is a trade simulator allowing you to live backtest at increased speed. I also like the DDE server. I also...

CoT is not being released following US shutdown... may get an update but it will probably be delayed... will see over the next few days... I expect it will be useless. SSI is available from FXCM for a fee.

As a newbie to trading I'm shocked by the 1990's feel of charting software. Metatrader4 appears to be the standard with the widest range of free and paid indicator scripts. My favourite is a trade simulator allowing you to live backtest at increased speed. I also like the DDE server. But it's...

Thanks for the warning. Have we experienced or heard of anything similar with Zulutrade or Collective2? Can automated systems be used to highlight interesting points in the data to look more closely at? One thing i noticed is that consistently the signals are late to the party and then it's a...

Thanks for the warning. Have we experienced or heard of anything similar with Zulutrade or Collective2? Can automated systems be used to highlight interesting points in the data to look more closely at? One thing i noticed is that consistently the signals are late to the party and then it's a...

CoT is not being released following US shutdown... may get an update but it will probably be delayed... will see over the next few days... I expect it will be useless. SSI is available from FXCM for a fee.

OK the term I was looking for was positioning and money management. I'm looking at minipositionsize.xls but the DDE server connecting to MT4 doesn't seem to connect, maybe also because it's linux. So I've edited it to use the 15min delayed yahoo lookups for the moment. Also I notice it seems...

OK the term I was looking for was positioning and money management. I'm looking at minipositionsize.xls but the DDE server connecting to MT4 doesn't seem to connect, maybe also because it's linux. So I've edited it to use the 15min delayed yahoo lookups for the moment. Also I notice it seems...

"It used to be the case that you could close individual components of the currency baskets using Trading Station. That was changed with an update last month." That's a shame. You should be able to do both; close single pair or close group. I could do with a spreadsheet to help with money...

The "roll A & B" for NGAS and USOIL is zero. So I guess the cost of holding these long term is offset by the more expensive margin use, right? - unless you hold i.e. $10,000 worth of USOIL in the form of a single 100 barrel contract ( assuming $100/barrel price) For anybody reading this thread...

Thanks there Jason. Ah, the CFD NGAS amounts baffle me - I need to convert what 1 unit as 1 million brit units equates to in $usd. I need to read up on this somewhere, just need to figure out the search terms to use. "CFC contract size value" maybe. re: CoT. Yes, the CFTC reports are not...